Want for Nothing Author|Troy Simonson Her paintings prints and drawings

Her paintings prints and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries and she often lectures to schools and teachers' groups on her books and the art of the picture book

In several poems an aura of nostalgia is present which is less a yearning for past times than a questioning reappraisal of what was really going on back then

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Those from Above

Want for Nothing Author|Troy Simonson Her paintings prints and drawingsWant for Nothing is a linked series of short poems of kaleidoscopic variety, by turns cryptic and blunt, funny and sad, awake again and dreaming again. Collectively, these poems speak of disorientation and longing, but the grudging circumstances of this speech and the irrepressible playfulness powering it are both evident from moment to moment, a dynamic perhaps referred to in the text as "that characteristic charismatic poignant self involved